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Airlines that are now extinct

US Airways will soon officially be no more. The airline that started as a tiny airmail service 76 years ago is retiring as part of a 2013 merger with American Airlines. The final US Airways flight is scheduled to take off from San Francisco Friday night on a red-eye flight that will land in Philadelphia on Saturday morning. The airline is only the latest in a long line of airlines that have gone the way of the dinosaurs and are now extinct. Here are some of the more memorable ones.

Allegheny Airlines (1946-1979, changed name to USAir, which later became US Airways)

American Trans Air or ATA (1973-2008)

Braniff International Airways (1930-1982)

Canadian Airlines (1987-2000, acquired by Air Canada)

Continental Airlines (1934-2012, merged with United Airlines)

Eastern Air Lines (1926-1991)

Frontier Airlines (1950-1986, not related to the current Frontier Airlines)